The patriarchal political order : the making and unravelling of the gendered participation gap in India / Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prillaman, Soledad Artiz, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--India.

Political participation.

Political culture--India.

Political culture.

Male domination (Social structure)--India.

Male domination (Social structure).

Rural women--India--Social conditions.

Rural women.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Women across the Global South, and particularly in India, turn out to vote on election days but are noticeably absent from politics year-round. Why? In The Patriarchal Political Order, Soledad Artiz Prillaman combines descriptive and causal analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from more than 9,000 women and men in India to expose how coercive power structures diminish political participation for women. Prillaman unpacks how dominant men, imbued with authority from patriarchal institutions and norms, benefit from institutionalizing the household as a unitary political actor. Women vote because it serves the interests of men but stay out of politics more generally because it threatens male authority. Yet, when women come together collectively to demand access to political spaces, they become a formidable foe to the patriarchal political order. Eye-opening and inspiring, this book serves to deepen our understanding of what it means to create an inclusive democracy for all.

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ISBN:

9781009355797 (ebook)

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